codewizard13 / ehw-app-scrape-youtube-info

App: Grabs (scrapes) data from a YouTube video page and prints to console [2021]

INFO PROPERTY	VALUE
Program Name	App: Scrape YouTube Info
File Name	README.md
Date Created	10/25/21
Date Modified	06/27/22
Version	1.00
Programmer	Eric Hepperle

TECHNOLOGIES

Purpose

App: Grabs (scrapes) data from a YouTube video page and prints to console title, url, and channel name using vanilla JavaScript ES6. This is useful for quickly grabbing enough information to make a link to a YouTube video and/or channel.

Included Scripts

• Scrape YouTube Single Video Deets
• Scrape YouTube Playlist Deets

Materials/References

• https://bytearcher.com/articles/es6-vs-es2015-name/

Usage

1. Open YouTube video page (you can pause video or let it play)
2. Open developer console (F12)
3. Copy-paste JS code into browser console and run (hit enter)

Sample Results:

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Requires

• Browser opened to a YouTube video with developer console exposed.

Demonstrates

• JavaScript
• ES6 / ECMAScript 2015
• Web Scraping / Web Scrapers
• Vanilla JavaScript
• YouTube Scraping

TAGS

JavaScript ES6 Web Scraping Vanilla JavaScript YouTube

VOCAB

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Resources

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